HM Inspector of Electrical Engineering in Mines

You will report to HM Chief Inspector of Mines and be responsible for securing compliance with relevant health and safety legislation, the reduction in risk and the improvement of health and safety standards in underground mining activities in Great Britain by inspection, investigation and where necessary, the enforcement of the legislation.

The post carries a significant workload and a high level of personal responsibility for decision making. You will be expected to provide support and professional advice to colleagues on operational and regulatory matters.

We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate:

Effective communication skills to influence change at all levels in the organisations we regulate
Sound analytical skills to identify underlying gaps and deficiencies related to health and safety risk management
Effective organisational and planning skills, taking personal responsibility for delivering expected outcomes on time and to the required standard
The ability to work collaboratively as art of a multi-disciplinary team, maintaining positive professional working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
The ability to produce effective technical reports, also to present complex technical information in a clear and concise way for a non-technical audience.

Casework and Policy Consultant

The HR Division (HRD) is a strategic, corporate, expert division which provides services to the organisation. Therefore, its role is to meet the needs of the organisation by developing, promoting, implementing and embedding best practice in people leadership and management. In addition, HRD is responsible for enabling people to develop and grow and fulfil their potential at work and by ensuring that the organisation is successful.

We are looking for experienced HR professionals to join our Casework and Policy team to deliver in the following areas:-

Providing expert advice to managers at all levels, dealing with complex HR formal decisions, up to and including dismissal and into formal litigation.
Managing a range of complex HR cases effectively, including performance, attendance and disciplinary cases. Advising and supporting managers to enable them to progress their cases, ensuring adherence to policy.
Coaching and supporting managers through formal and informal procedures, providing appropriate and accurate advice to assist early resolution of workplace issues within their team in a timely, supportive manner.
Engage with Trade Union colleagues and others both in person and in writing, through appropriate consultation and negotiation as necessary, when developing and updating policies, to gain feedback, and to allow for further change and discussion.
Identify the need for and regularly review HR policies across the HR Division to ensure they remain current and in line with any statutory changes in law. Horizon scan to understand any upcoming employment law changes and prioritise and review in line with these changes, ensuring consistency and commonality of language and structure to agreed standards.
Proactively, develop and deliver workshops across the business to support managers dealing with complex performance, attendance and disciplinary cases. Work collaboratively with HRBP’s to understand themes within their business areas ensuring workshops are fit for purpose to support managers.
Ensuring Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of all policy development, ensuring our policies align with the expectation and intent of the culture within the HSE.
Provide advice and support on employee relations as and when required. This could include engagement (attending people sub-group and other forums, leading on consultation of policy or restructure and ad hoc administrative support if required.
Ensure and quality assure that all casework systems and MI related dated are updated monthly, providing accurate, up to date information on all cases to enable sharing with manager and HR Director
Experience of interpreting HR related data to provide analysis on themes relating to long term absence cases, trigger points, performance and disciplinary cases to HR Director and SLT as required.

Mechanical Engineer – Specialist Inspector of Health and Safety

From the outset you will be supported by your manager and colleagues to understand your role in HSE, develop your skills and support you in your continuing professional development. For the legal requirements of the role, you will be enrolled on our Specialist Training Programme (STP) which you will be required to study for and successfully complete, including a final assessment. You will be required to spend periods of time away from home, visiting sites and other offices overnight, which your working pattern will accommodate.

To become an effective mechanical engineering specialist inspector, it is essential that you bring to the role your existing knowledge and experience of working in a high hazard industry, where you have been working in and making important decisions from a position of responsibility.

After completing the STP and when fully operational, your new job will be multi-faceted often involving several work packages concurrently, which you will have a high degree of autonomy to manage and deliver. Your core work will include carrying out inspections at major hazard installations with the aim of preventing loss of containment and mechanical failure. You will also be called upon to support investigations of accidents and incidents, helping to determine underlying causes, alongside other inspectors. Where a risk gap is identified, you will take or support enforcement action, including the preparation of Notices.

Your technical findings will be recorded in written reports, where you will also discuss issues found with reference to published guidance and relevant legislation. You may also be asked to provide expert evidence in legal proceedings. Upper tier COMAH establishments produce safety reports and part of your role will be to assess the mechanical engineering elements and identify where follow-up interventions are required. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of technical and operational strategy, and to represent HSE at external stakeholder events with fellow professionals, including speaking at conferences.

The Vacancy Holder – Paul Cooper – will be hosting an informal Q&A session via Teams on Friday 16th August at 12:00. During the session Paul will talk about the role, the application process and then be available to answer questions. For an invitation, please send an email to paul.cooper2@hse.gov.uk

Head of Health, Safety, Wellbeing and Business Partnering

HRD supports the organisation to deliver its priorities, which include: Creation of the Building Safety Division (funded by DLUHC); Delivery of the UK Chemicals Regulator (funded by DEFRA) Enabling our strategic aim to make HSE a great place to work, and one that attracts, develops and retains exceptional talent.

Upcoming priorities for the whole Division include delivering recruitment remains HR’s number one priority, ensuring we can meet the demands of the organisation whilst continually improving our approach and supporting this with a structured approach to talent through quality development activity; Aligning our reward strategies with our business aims, reviewing and reforming our pay structures; Improving diversity and inclusion as well as reducing bullying, harassment and discrimination is key.

We are focused on increasing BAME representation in our workforce as well as growing the number of women in senior roles. Focus on strengthening our health safety and wellbeing arrangements to support and enable colleagues to work in a healthy environment is important to us, no more so than in current times; Continuing to invest in raising the skills and professionalism of our corporate HR capability and in securing better value from external/ shared service supplier.

Business Partnering

Provision of an expert business- focused HR business partner service to HSE’s Divisions.
Ensure HRBPs use data to establish and drive forward an effective workforce planning framework, people strategies, and to embed HR policy within the HSE workforce.

Health, Safety and Wellbeing

Establish and implement an HSW strategy ensuring HSW arrangements and their outputs contribute to business planning, risk management and overall business performance monitoring.
Lead on all aspects of health and wellbeing within HSE, ensuring appropriate systems and monitoring are in place to ensure the successful safeguarding of HSE employees.

Project Manager

We are looking for a band 3/SEO Project Manager to join our team within the Operational Service Division (OSD) in HSE.

The role of the Project Manager is to lead / manage a project and the project team on a day-to-day basis. The Project Manager is responsible for driving and overseeing the delivery of the project to ensure that the objectives are clearly defined and achieved within the agreed time, cost, and quality constraints. The Project Manager has a key role in project governance and working with stakeholders, to ensure the agreed project outputs are delivered to enable benefits to be realised.

This is an exciting opportunity to help us lead, drive and deliver significant change across HSE, driven by a new strategy and a number of new and challenging transformation programmes.

Senior Regulatory Scientist – Exposure Team

The Non-dietary Exposure Team’s function is to assess occupational and other non-dietary exposure of people to pesticides and biocides. This is an exciting time to join the team and you will play a leading role in developing the UK Government’s approaches to assessing the risks arising from exposure to chemicals and work with a variety of national and international organisations and experts. To help us meet these challenges, we require two ambitious senior regulatory non-dietary exposure experts to join us in undertaking occupational and non-dietary exposure assessments of biocides and pesticides.

You will already be an established professional in occupational and non-dietary exposure assessment of biocides and/or pesticides. Beyond your specialism you will work alongside a multi-disciplinary team of chemical and environmental scientists and other technical experts undertaking risks assessments using range of data relating to biocide/pesticide active substances and products. Your role will be to lead occupational and non-dietary exposure assessments of biocides or pesticides and explain conclusions and decisions internally and externally, to independent scientists, other government departments and relevant stakeholders.

Incident Manager

As HSE’s IT Incident Manager your role will be to restore normal service operation as quickly as possible and minimise any adverse effects on business operations, ensuring that the best possible levels of service, quality, and availability are returned and maintained. You will maintain the highest standards of user and customer focus, ensuring that services are restored to user/customer satisfaction.

You will collaborate with cross functional teams to identify and address root causes for incidents, implementing preventative measures and act as a liaison between technical teams, management, and stakeholders to communicate incident status and resolution times as required. You will also work alongside HSE Resolver Teams to ensure third party vendors and services providers are engaged to resolve incidents within the agreed SLA’s as appropriate.

Key Responsibilities

Effectively manage and support the resolution of IT incidents, ensuring minimal impact on business operations.
Undertake Quality Assurance Checks, providing feedback to HSE Resolver Teams and Third-Party Vendors as appropriate.
Regularly evaluate HSE’s Incident Management processes and implement improvements and efficiencies.
Generate regular (Daily/Weekly/Monthly) reports and Dashboards for management as required, to assess performance and identify areas of improvement.
Support HSE’s Major Incident Manager (MIM) participating in post-incident reviews to analyse the effectiveness of responses, document lessons learned, and implement improvements for future incident management.

Assistant Economist

The Economic and Social Analysis Team provides leadership and quality service in social research/ economics to help HSE protect people and places. We provide high-quality, evidence-based advice covering the full breadth of HSE’s remit, producing analysis and research used across UK Government, industry, academia, international bodies e.g. OECD and EU.

HSE economists provide advice and analysis on the development of HSE strategy/ policy in tackling serious occupational injury; work-related ill health including cancer and mental health; and serious industrial accidents.

As part of a specialised team, currently comprising seven Economists and eight Social Researchers, Assistant Economists (AEs) have many opportunities to take on responsibility and develop their skills. The Economic and Social Analysis Team provides advice across the scope of HSEs remit – from offshore oil and gas exploration to genetically modified organisms – and this offers great variety to AEs that will help form a solid basis for a career as a government economist.

While in post, the successful candidate will be required to apply to join the GES through the annual Assistant Economist recruitment scheme within 12 months of joining HSE if you are not a member of the GES already. If you are not a member of the GES and are successful at interview or offered a post, you will be offered a conditional contract until successful completion of the Economic Assessment Centre (EAC). Support will be offered to maximise the likelihood of success.https://www.gov.uk/guidance/assistant-economist-recruitment

Senior Management Accountant

You will support the Head of Financial Management and senior colleagues, providing advice on a range of budgeting, accounting and reporting issues, ensuring HSE complies with HMT’s Consolidated Budgeting guidance and adheres to Managing Public Money.

Across a typical month, you will initially focus on production of monthly management accounts, ensuring financial outturn is complete and free from material error. You then will lead and coordinate the collation of the HSE financial forecast, liaising closely with Finance Business Partners to drive the process to deadline, prioritising areas of materiality and volatility such as Payroll, Programmes and Income.

You will use your analytical skills to produce insight and understanding of the underlying financial position to assist report production to Executive Committee, HSE Board and our sponsor department DWP. You will play a central role in assisting with detailed financial performance reviews to provide Finance and Senior Leaders with high quality information on which to base decisions, at key points in the financial year.

You will be supported by a small team of part-qualified finance professionals and trainees, which you will lead, provide direction, ensuring they adopt a culture of continuous improvement.

You will also take the lead with maintaining HSE Orgs and Structures within ERP system (SOP/SSCL), and ensure effective controls are in place to maintain accuracy of data in financial reporting systems such as Hyperion and QlikView.

Finance Officer

Are you interested in pursuing a career in finance and looking for an entry level opportunity? We are advertising for 2 x Band 5 Finance Officers working within the Central Finance team. The roles provide key support for PFPD’s financial reporting function that produces monthly outputs to ExCo/Board/DWP, plays a key role delivering HSE’s Annual Report and Accounts (ARA) and provides essential finance and accounting support in areas such as non-current assets, reconciliation of the balance sheet and forecasting and budgeting.

These roles provide opportunity for candidates to develop a wide variety of finance experience through exposure to a range of accounting queries we see in PFPD. The role will suit an individual who has experience working in a deadline driven and fast paced dynamic environment and enjoys working with financial reporting products such as Excel.

We will provide excellent training opportunities which will accelerate your career such as Level 4 or 7 Finance Apprenticeships, on the job support from experienced members of the Central Finance Team and L&D opportunities with HSE to develop your softer skills.